"Dzitari"
- A collection of Latvian folk song
arrangements for kokle ensembles
(cassette)

Review

Vilnis Salaks has made a
professionally valuable, artistically striking
contribution. The son of noted Latvian folk music
specialist and composer Arturs Salaks (1891-1984), he was
raised in his father's musical traditions ... He is one
the most knowledgable Latvian folk music experts, with
particular accent on the string instrument, kokle.
Salaks' kokle, vocal and instrumental arrangements are
rich and colorful and easily accessible for the
"average player". Following in the diatonic
footsteps of his father and (Latvian) composers
Melngailis and Graubins, he does not merely re-create
traditional music, but develops it further ...